adherent

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See also: adhérent and adhèrent

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (to stick to, cling).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/, /əd-/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/, /əd-/
    • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

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adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)

adherent sand
  1. Adhesive, sticking to something.
    • 1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II:
      Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung
      And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.
  2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
  3. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
  4. (medicine, of a person) Showing adherence to a treatment.
    • 2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1217:
      Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.

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Translations

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Noun

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adherent (plural adherents)

  1. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

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References

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adhaerentem.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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adherent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adherents)

  1. adherent

Noun

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adherent m or f by sense (plural adherents)

  1. adherent
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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French adhérent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaerēre.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

Adjective

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adherent (comparative adherenter, superlative adherentst)

  1. adherent

Declension

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Declension of adherent
uninflected adherent
inflected adherente
comparative adherenter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial adherent adherenter het adherentst
het adherentste
indefinite m./f. sing. adherente adherentere adherentste
n. sing. adherent adherenter adherentste
plural adherente adherentere adherentste
definite adherente adherentere adherentste
partitive adherents adherenters
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Latin

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Verb

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adhērent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of adhēreō

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin adhaerēns.[1] First attested in 1588.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛrɛnt
  • Syllabification: ad‧he‧rent

Noun

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adherent m pers (female equivalent adherentka)

  1. (dated or literary) adherent, henchman, supporter
    Synonyms: poplecznik, rzecznik, stronnik, zwolennik
    Antonyms: adwersarz, oponent, przeciwnik

Declension

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noun

References

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “adherent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “adherent”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /adxěrent/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

Noun

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adhèrent m (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)

  1. adherent

Declension

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